It is important that medical physicists be involved in the development and implementation of integrated hospital information systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4455-4458

  Nikiforidis, George C ^a   Kagadis, George C ^a   Orton, Colin G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL PHYSICISTS;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 33845300230     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2242051     Document Type: Review

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